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Welcome to our Adoption Blog

Welcome to our blog! We would love for you to follow our journey of Adoption. But we also hope that this blog would bring awareness to adoption/orphan care and that you might be encouraged to get involved on some level.

John 14:18

Isaiah 43:6

I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth. Isaiah 43:6

Waiting on Bella to COME HOME!

Bella is HOME!!!

To India for our girl!

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Beginning our Journey

India Key Statistics

**Ind*a has a high level of children trafficked for labor and sexual exploitation.

**25,700,000are Orphans.

**More than 80 percent of the rural population does not have access to adequate sanitation facilities.

(stats by Faces of the Forgotten)

Some other Ind*a Stats

Ind*a 1,269,210 square miles, which makes it the 7th largest geographical country. Put Alaska, California, and Texas together and you have about the same size.

It has almost 3 times the population of America, and is considered the second most populated country.

The people, the country and the land are beautiful.

In 2006 only 3,332 were adopted.

Last year only 236 children were adopted.

Recent studies show that Ind*a has the largest number of AIDS orphans in the world, even over Africa.

Sadly, Ind*a right now is the leader in human trafficking.

1.2 million young girls are involved in child prostitution.

900,000 people die each day from drinking unclean water.

Ind*a is considered the most religiously hostile region in the world when it comes to Christianity.

Every second someone in Ind*a dies without ever hearing about Jesus. Of 1.21 Billion people, over 1 billion have never heard the Gospel once. There are 500,000 villages without a pastor, church, Bible, or any Gospel presence.

Jeremiah 29:11

Adoption Timeline

5.5.12 Home with our girl!

5.2.12 Received Visa

4.24.12 Gotcha Day!

4.22.12 Leaving for IND*A!!

4.12.12 Received Bella's Passport!

2.14.11 PASSED COURT!!

1.31.12 NOC!! (No Objection Certificate)

7.22.11 I-800 Provisional Approval

3.15.2011 Official Referral via Fedex and Acceptance!!!!

3.15.2011 Immigration fingerprints (2nd time for extension)

2.23.11 Homestudy updated and ready to send to Immigration

2.11.11 filed 1-800A Supplement 3 for extension of 1-797

2.7.2011 Unoffical referral via email!!!!!

* November 2011 began to update the homestudy etc before Immigration 1-797 expired 2.20.11

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Quote by Dennis Rainey

“We have been blessed with so much, yet too often we squander these blessings on our personal pursuits without a thought that God gives us these things to use for his Kingdom. Yet I believe the adoption of orphans is one of the greatest opportunities today for fulfilling the Great Commission. When children are received into families where they are introduced to the Savior, and grow up in a secure and loving environment, they are positioned to meet and experience the living God in a tangible way.” — Dennis Rainey, president and cofounder of FamilyLife